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Eagle Rock chooses the HD LAB
25th August, 2008
Eagle Rock have announced a deal with On Sight's technical facility, the HD LAB, to manage and distribute it's entire programme catalogue.
Eagle Rock is one of the UK's leading distributors, specialising in the production and distribution of music and entertainment programming. On Sight's HD LAB will be providing Library management, quality assessment and technical re-versioning for the entire SD and HD catalogues.
Scoring Gold
25th August, 2008
Nike 'Take it to the next Level' wins Gold at Cannes
Next Level" is new take on Football from Nike. Made to inspire football obsessed teens, the film is a first-person journey up the football ranks-from being discovered by Arsenal in a youth match to a life-defining moment playing for our national side. Along the way we experience success (finishing a cross from Cesc Fabregas) as well as frustration (getting burned by Ronaldinho). The film celebrates playing the game with purpose and passion. It shows what it takes to become a modern, brilliant fofotballer - to take your game to the next level
Focusing on Ford
22nd August, 2008
As one of the few IMAX recording facilities outside of the USA, RPS Film Imaging offers a highly specialised and unique service, capable of recording at levels up to 8K IMAX resolution.
So when the HDCAM SR tape of the latest Ford Focus commercial was sent to RPS for IMAX conversion and was found to be not up to scratch, RPS technical director Simon Burley knew he had a problem.
Web to Blu-ray
22nd August, 2008
The HD LAB's encoding operation, is an area of the business that has grown rapidly thanks to an explosion in the range of different media formats – from Standard Definition TV to HD and Blu-ray, as well as for mobile and web-based video applications.
“People come to us because encoding requires specialist equipment and the technical experience to achieve high quality results, and our SAN has capture cards which give us the capacity to do encoding with large files,” says On Sight facilities manager Tony Maher.
Virgin Galactic
12th August, 2008
Getting away from it all has taken on a new meaning. Or it will in a couple of years, when Richard Branson plans to take his airlines business to the next level – offering the world’s first commercial space flights aboard his Virgin Galactic spaceline.
Future astronauts can find out more by watching a promotion film about the venture, which delves into the technology and the people behind Virgin Galactic, directed by film-maker Carl Fospero of Made in the Shade Productions.